Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

About a domestic traitor who helped the Italians kill his fellow Dalmatians.

A film about young girls from the villages that go to the monastery and break any connection with the outside world. The portrayal of a ritual in which girls turn from world to sanctuary, and become nuns.

First revue of domestic Yugoslav cinema in Yugoslavia, 1954.

A group of farmers with financial difficulties decide to ask help from their fellow villager who emigrated to the States 30 years ago. Shot with nonprofessional actors from the amateur theatre in Kovin, Serbia.

According to the Bible, the first man walked on Earth at 5 minutes to 12 o’clock. It was Adam, and he lived 930 years. The clock has been showing 5 to 12 for a long time. The question is raised: till when? Because, once the count down starts, the end is unavoidable.

Documentary about Montenegrin coastal area.

A character with an overactive imagination witnesses strange events. Reality or fiction? Dive into the worrying universe of film noir.

The clock ticks softly. Old men drinking mocha and rolling cigarettes. Nothing more than the occasional sigh to be heard. The old Bosnian coffee-houses are oases of tranquillity, screened-off from the fast-paced world outside.

An examination of the existence of people who are forced to live from seasonal work.

A young man on horseback approaches Sarajevo, on his lips a sevdalinka, a traditional song of love. He meets a girl fetching water from a well, falls in love with her, and slowly makes his way home.

Educational film that deals with proper conduct of army officers.

A puppet animation.

A man reads a horror novel late at night. His imagination runs away with him; he thinks some dripping beverage is blood, is frightened by his own bear-skin rug, and faints when he sees a shadow of himself in a noose-like tangle of his phone cord. The ambulance arrives and finds the most threatening thing is a kitten in a sock and a shelf of horror novels. They cart off the novels and leave the man.

A 16mm amateur film.

Short silent film.

The inspector cautiously walks the city streets avoiding “dangers”. He comes home, washes his feet and reads newspapers. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that makes a run for it. The inspector follows it…

A lost Serbian film.

Boro Miranovic - self proclaimed king of Montenegro...

Short documentary depicting the preparations for a Communist congress in Sarajevo, including the use of large billboards to obscure the view of run-down neighborhoods.

A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

Experimental film.

16mm short that shows rhytmic motions of reflections spreading across sea waves, set to jazz tune.

8mm film by Ljubomir Simunic. Thrilling, haunting, eerie, and mesmeric; feels more authentically Luciferian than anything Kenneth Anger ever made. And what a rocking soundtrack!

A reconstructed view of the surroundings I had as a child. I place the camera in the space at different levels corresponding to different stages in my life as I grew up. Constant camera movements show objects from extreme close-up, a perspective alien to the eye opening up a microcosm which remains hidden to the normal observer.

Student from Belgrade is shooting amateur melodramatic movie about unfortunate love in Serbian village.

Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Irreverent experimental short film.

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the festivity, where she finds herself in a company of older hiker. However, all ends happily, as Minka and Miha, after many smaller adventures, meet at the top of Mount Triglav, where they sign the marriage contract, but also confirming their love for the mountains. In addition to its charming story, the movie features footage of picturesque Slovenian mountains.

WWI comes to a small Serbian village of Kumodraž , disturbing its residents' quiet life.

A documentary about the farm where the best Yugoslav butter was once made.

A silent footage.

Man's ability, on the one hand, to create supreme works, in science and art, in terms of humanization in behavior, and on the other hand, he also carries within himself a "talent" for finding ever more perfect means of self-destruction. One such danger was presented with the explosion of the atomic bomb during World War II. It hinted at the potential probability of a definitive cataclysm of the entire world. Since then, man's fear for his existence, for the existence of his offspring, of the entire human race and of everything that planet Earth means, has been much more present.

A documentary about the construction work on the Bratstvo-Edinstvo highway, the shifts of the work brigades, the successes on the route, new acquaintances and the joy of the foremen after a successfully completed shift.

A documentary about Ibro Ismaili who lost one of his legs due to gangrene bit with strong will and hard work, he achieved extraordinary psycho-physical fitness and set himself a goal to cross 1452 km. by bicycle across Yugoslavia.

In numerous health care institutions, waiting rooms are full of people who spend long hours nervously waiting to be seen by a doctor. Patients who come there seeking help appear to have been abandoned, left to die a slow death without getting any mercy or assistance from the people who were supposed to give them care.

The film is a true story on the life of the Kocho Topencharov, who after 40 years spent in Albania, returns in his fatherland – Macedonia, with his wife and children. The story begins in Ohrid, when Kocho falls in love with Maria. In 1950, she returns in Albania, where her family lived. In 1950, Kocho illegally crosses the state border of Albania to find his love. But, the birocracy of Albanian state consider him as a spy and he spends many years in jail. Later, he is released, but he is not allowed to return to Macedonia. He marries Maria in Albania… This is a film about his love & life story.

The film depicts hardships of being a waitress.

Animation comedy taking individual through daily misadventures.

Film about friendship between a boy and a horse. The boy and his horse love and trust each other and spend their time together running in the fields. But the boy's father decides to sell the horse because he can no longer financially justify keeping it. His son's tears won't make him change his mind. The horse is sold. After returning from school, the boy starts searching for the horse: he looks in the barn, in the yard, in the fields, even at a market. But it is all in vain. Finally, the boy finds the horse at a railway station, already inside a train wagon. A tractor driver meets the boy who is lonely and sad and shows understanding for his pain. A new friendship is born.

Short documentary about neglected children who end up in streets, and gradually get involved in the world of crime.

Stingy land was shot on the territory of the Čitluk municipality. It speaks about preparation of the karst terrain and planting of the famous Brotnjo stone vineyards in Blizanci that were planted from 1981 till 1984. Indigenous Herzegovinian ganga song can be heard in this film.

Drama of Nobelist Ivo Andric shown in retrospective way that tells a story of a woman who abandoned her wealthy and prominent husband because of his increasingly schizophreniac behaviour, known only to her.

By creating a counterpoint between the older residents who inhabit Split’s market square during the day and the young people who party there at night, director Lordan Zafranovic and editor Ivan Martinac tell the story of one of the most important spaces of Split’s social life.

Somebody steals Johhny’s gold in the premises of Kino klub Split. He just says: Screw me for letting myself be brought to this amateur club!

A 1974 Macedonian language drama film written and directed by Slobodan Unkovski, starring Stojka Cekova, Aco Djorcev and Aco Djorcev.

Heroes from the title are American married couple who in the 1950 were captured and sentenced for spying in favour of Soviet Union.

One summer season in a small Dalmatian town.

A short comedy made for television aired on New Year’s Eve of 1983.

Life and human relationships are becoming more like one big circus. In fact, it's not always a circus within a circus, or something more about relationships between people.

By giving letters and words a human spirit and character, an attempt has been made in an unusual way to clarify certain concepts and conditions of modern man.

A drama in one act by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, published in 1914. The plot takes place during one carnival night when three masked protagonists – a husband dressed as Don Quixote, his wife dressed as Colombina from commedia dell’arte and her lover Pierrot – observe their relations.

Compilation of several comedy sketches starring Miodrag Petrovic 'Ckalja' and Zarko Mitrovic in supporting role.

This drama subtly tells the story about the dreams of the shoemaker named Rafael, but also about the life of the Sarajevo Jews, whom Samokovlija painted with a lot of love for their suffering and a lot of literary and psychological persuasiveness.

A young detective notices a passerby in a black cape on the street. He follows him to the apartment of a beautiful woman who emits a terrifying scream. Who would have thought it was just an opera singer suffering from a sore throat...

A teenager wakes up at the last moment, and has just five minutes to get himself into shape before running to school which is right across his street. Will he make it to classroom before it's too late?

Short animated film.

An architect in a construction company gets close to a young girl who has just graduated, whom he met while she was a student doing an internship at that company. Their relationship becomes more and more serious, and despite a few small frictions, they stay together. He is going on a business trip by plane to Libya. The plane crashes on landing. He survives, but remains immobile. Despite such an accident, she stays by his side.

The monastery "St. Panteleimon" in Nerezi is a masterpiece of medieval, not only Macedonian but also Byzantine architecture. Its main features are the harmonious forms, the mastery of its builders, the polychrome facade of stone and brick, as well as the skillfully made domes. The painting, on the other hand, by unknown masters from 1164 represents the apogee of drama, unseen in medieval painting until Nerezi.

A satirical depiction of the national dance "Teškoto" in which the syndrome of mutual human destruction is inserted.

A film story about the fates of several prisoners in the "Idrizovo" Correctional Facility, who, due to their crimes, are spending the New Year in prison, and about the impact of their fates on the lives of their families, who, innocently, are probably facing even greater problems than those of the prisoners.